A suspect has been arrested in the stabbing case, but prosecutors are having trouble contacting the victim, police said Tuesday.

A 25-year-old man has been arrested for stabbing a gay man in the Bronx — but the case is on hold because prosecutors are having trouble getting in touch with the victim, police said Tuesday.

Kareem Ruddock, 25, was arrested for felony assault and weapons possession for allegedly attacking Marquis Devereaux near Sunset Blvd. and Neptune Lane in Clason Point, near both of their homes, on July 10.

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Devereaux was walking home from his job as an event planner when someone told him, "We're not going to do any of that boyfriend stuff around here."

A 25-year-old man was arrested for stabbing Marquis Devereaux (pictured), who says he was only guilty of being gay. (Andrew Savulich/New York Daily News)

Devereaux kept walking and was accosted by two other men, one of whom slashed him in the left armpit while the other called him "homo," "f-----" and "bumbaclot," a Jamaican term for a rag used as toilet paper.

The suspects fled and the victim was taken to Westchester Square Hospital, where his wound was closed with eight stitches.

Devereaux was stabbed at Sunset Blvd. and Neptune Lane, near his home in Clason Point. (Robert Sabo/New York Daily News)

In January 2011 Devereaux was stabbed in Queens by a man, Dario Reid, who mocked his sexuality. Reid was charged with a hate crime and served three years in prison.

"This has happened to me twice and the only thing I'm guilty of is being gay," Devereaux told The Daily News after the July 10 attack.

The Bronx District Attorney's office deferred prosecution against Ruddock because prosecutors were having trouble locating Devereaux and need to re-interview him before going ahead with the case, a source said.